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Member Review by Wine Fire:

Flowers and berries leap from the glass at uncorking, adding beets, graphite, cream cheese and honey dew melon over the first 30 minutes, mixed in a cherry, raisiny, woody and herbal mélange. The nose dissipates after an hour and never fully opens again, owing perhaps to its age in the bottle (opened 5/14/2011), but the wine remains delicate, poised and interesting. The palate displays initially with sharp currant in the center behind a metallic coating on the front, opening in 30 minutes to a full array of red and dark fruits, including raspberry, cherry, plum, and raisin. The mouthfeel is heavy, with a velvety texture. At an hour, an undercurrent of chocolate and coffee emerges to deepen the palate, and a meaty flavor appears intermittently on the back, along with a citrus tang to round out the top. This particular bottle seemed to be just a tad past its peak when our group tasted it, but the wine had abundant signs of the masterpiece it surely once was.

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Clarendon Hills:
Clarendon Hills is a small family run winery based in Clarendon, South Australia. With a philosophy to convey variety expression at an ultimate level, hand performance of every task ensures each step of the process is exacting to specification. Making wine in an old-school, low technology fashion - each decision bases the sight, smell, taste and interpretation as its mechanics.

Flowers and berries leap from the glass at uncorking, adding beets, graphite, cream cheese and honey dew melon over the first 30 minutes, mixed in a cherry, raisiny, woody and herbal mélange. The nose dissipates after an hour and never fully opens again, owing perhaps to its age in the bottle (opened 5/14/2011), but the wine remains delicate, poised and interesting. The palate displays initially with sharp currant in the center behind a metallic coating on the front, opening in 30 minutes to a full array of red and dark fruits, including raspberry, cherry, plum, and raisin. The mouthfeel is heavy, with a velvety texture. At an hour, an undercurrent of chocolate and coffee emerges to deepen the palate, and a meaty flavor appears intermittently on the back, along with a citrus tang to round out the top. This particular bottle seemed to be just a tad past its peak when our group tasted it, but the wine had abundant signs of the masterpiece it surely once was.